IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holdrege
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79NE073002
  • User Pedon ID: 79NE073002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0147
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.5855560
  • Std. Longitude: -99.8675003
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 22W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet east and 850 feet north of southwest corner
  • Map Unit: HoB—Holdrege silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes2668—Holdrege silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE073—Gosper
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE073—Gosper County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marvin Dixon and Steve Scheinost
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holdrege
  • PSC - 23 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holdrege
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peorian loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    23—58

    —43—

    —35—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00728. common fine roots
    A12—1 to 23 centimeters (0.4 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00729. common fine roots
    Bt21—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00730. common fine roots
    Bt22—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; pressure faces on faces of peds and organic stains; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00731. common fine roots
    B3—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; organic stains; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00732. common fine roots
    C1—74 to 92 centimeters (29.1 to 36.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 11 percent carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00733. common soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few very fine and fine roots
    C2—92 to 122 centimeters (36.2 to 48.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky; 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00734. common soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine roots
    C3—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine and medium faint mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky; 1 percent carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 79P00735. few soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine and medium faint 10YR66 mottles